Otherness

"My strangeness had as its cause all that which made me not seem strange to her. With horror she discovered in everything that was ordinary about her the source of everything that was extraordinary about me." - Blanchot, Thomas the Obscure "... in the real world, every being who lives consciously has recourse to fiction; he is … Continue reading Reading Blanchot: Everyday Alienation

One of the things that fascinates me the most within the realm of Fantasy and Sci-fi is the presentation of morality systems with the concept of the “other.” Much has been written about otherness, and what I’m writing here is in no way going to be a comprehensive review of this very broad, heavily debated … Continue reading Other, Self, and the Fictitious Identity